MOCK REVISION GUIDE

MEDIA STUDIES (Specification OCR J200)

You will have two examination papers.

Read your downloaded OCR green fact sheets: they are important for understanding TV, promoting media, radio and newspapers.

OCR also provide extremely useful candidate exemplar answers and previous exam papers, but remember that they may ask slightly different questions next time. Use your own last marked exam paper for revision of exam technique.

Look back through the class blog which has every question for both papers. Read your own marked answers on your own blog.

Your two exams:

Paper 1 Television and Promoting Media (I hour 45 minutes including 30 minutes viewing time)
 OCR pdf guide to Television : Industry and Audience here

Paper 1 will have questions on:

·      Cuffs and The Avengers. (Use Clickview to revise Cuffs and The Avengers).

·      The Lego Movie poster advertising campaign (all 5 posters) and UK TV trailer.

·      The Lego Movie ad break.

·      The Lego Movie videogame.

Q1 - Cuffs Revise media language (technical codes of camerawork, editing, mise-en-scène, sound) [5 marks].

Q2 - How representations are created and how audiences relate to characters and events [10 marks].

Q3 - asks you to analyse and evaluate aspects of Cuffs, such as viewpoint [15 marks].

Q4 - revise PSB [5 marks].

Q5 – Revise The Avengers using the OCR booklet Television: Industry and Audiences as you must show how the programme reflects the society in which it was produced and that of its target audience, including its cultural, political and historical context [10 marks].

Q6 [1 mark] and Q7 [4 marks] - revise PEGI and why Lego released the Lego Movie Video Game.

Q8 and Q9 - Lego in-depth questions that ask you to show understanding of audience pleasures as well as genre codes and conventions. Revise the Uses and Gratifications theoretical framework [each 10 marks]. Revise the Lego Movie Ad break, the media language of the poster campaign and the audience pleasures of the video game.
OCR pdf guide to the Lego Movie: industry here
OCR pdf guide to the Lego movie video game: industry and audience here

1.       The main poster featuring an ensemble cast, running from danger

http://www.impawards.com/2014/lego_movie_ver9.html)

2.       Character poster of Vitruvius in close-up

(http://www.impawards.com/2014/lego_movie_ver3.html)

3.       Character poster of Emmet in close-up

(http://www.impawards.com/2014/lego_movie_ver8.html)

4.       Character poster of Lord Business in close-up

(http://www.impawards.com/2014/lego_movie_ver5.html)

5.       Character poster of Wyldstyle in close-up

http://www.impawards.com/2014/lego_movie_ver7.html)

 

Paper 2 Music and News (1 hour 15 minutes)

Paper 2 will have questions on:

Q1 - media regulation [1 mark].

Q2 - music videos: Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag; Avril Lavigne – Sk8ter Boi (including genre codes and conventions). Read the music booklet pages 14,15 and 18 [4 marks].

Q3 -The Live Lounge, BBC Radio 1 [10 marks]. Read the music booklet pages 25-27.
OCR pdf Radio: Industry and Audience fact sheet here

Q4 - revise MOJO magazine (including genre terms like masthead, coverline, standfirst, central splash etc) [5 marks]. Read the music booklet pages 5, 6 and 7.

Q5 - revise The Observer/Guardian newspaper website and social media; two contemporary front covers of The Observer; the front covers of The Observer dated 30 October 1966, 6 November 1966 and 20 October 1968; and one complete contemporary print edition of The Observer [15 marks].

(In order to revise the online and print press, you should re-read the OCR fact sheet News: Industry and Audiences).

Q6, 7 - revise press regulation [1 mark] and newspaper funding [4 marks].

Q8 - revise textual analysis of The Observer online [5 marks].

Q9 - revise how The Observer’s values and beliefs are evident in their pages [15 marks].

Q10 - revise how broadsheet newspapers reflect social and historical contexts [10 marks].

Yr 11: TV CUFFS

How did changing attitudes towards gender roles in 2015 influence Cuffs, Episode 1?

Year 11: TV THE AVENGERS

PREP Revise the following:

• How did changing attitudes towards gender roles in 1965 influence The Town of No Return? pages 32-33.
• How did changing attitudes towards sexuality in 1965 influence The Town of No Return? page 33.
• How did changing attitudes towards class in 1965 influence The Town of No Return? page 34.
• How did changing attitudes towards age in 1965 influence The Town of No Return? page 34-5.
• How did changing attitudes towards ethnicity in 1965 influence The Town of No Return? page 35.
• Exam practice Question 5 page 35. Read the pages following this!